Food plays an interesting role inDisney Dreamlight Valley. Since the game is a simulation, you’re able to immerse yourself in it with the way you decorate, the activities you do, and even the food you choose to consume to keep your energy replenished. You’ll use up energy while doing activities.

While you have multiple options to manage your energy in the game, it’s often easiest to carry your favorite foods in your inventory, so you don’t have to stop whatever task you’re working on when you deplete your energy bar. If Ice Cream is your favorite, we’ve got you covered.

Disney Dreamlight Valley avatar in Remy’s restaurant near a shelf with assorted ingredients for purchase.

How To Unlock Ice Cream Treats

To unlock the ability to make ice cream, you’ll need to complete a few other tasks first:

Once you’ve done the above steps,including the walkthrough to unlock Slush Ice, you should have access to everything you need for Vanilla Ice Cream.

Disney Dreamlight Valley avatar standing in front of a cooking pot on a stovetop in a home. The cooking interface for ingredient selection is shown. Even vanilla ice cream and other chilly treats must be cooked in this game.

Vanilla Ice Cream Recipe

Vanilla Ice Cream is a regular Disney Dreamlight Valley recipe, which meansyou can make this dish even if you don’t have the “A Rift In Time” expansion. Itwill take a total of four ingredientsto make this chilly treat,along with the usual coalfor processing.

Vanilla

Coal

Vanilla Ice Cream shouldn’t be confused with Ice Cream. These aretwo separate foodseven though the icon pictures look the same.

Though this is a chilly treat, you’ll also stillneed to cook it at a regular cooking station. We didn’t make the rules.

Disney Dreamlight Valley avatar standing next to Goofy’s stall on Dazzle Beach.

How To Obtain Ingredients For Vanilla Ice Cream

Disney Dreamlight Valley has a host ofingredients which need to be foraged, grown, or purchased. We’ll break down which ingredients can be purchased and which can be grown or foraged.

Two of the ingredients for Vanilla Ice Cream must be purchased. There is no other way to obtain them.

Disney Dreamlight Valley avatar shopping for ingredients for Vanilla Ice Cream at Remy’s restaurant.

Grown Or Foraged Ingredients

Purchased Ingredients

Sugarcane can bepurchased at Goofy’s stall on Dazzle Beach, and coal can bepurchased at Kristoff’s stallif you don’t feel like mining. Stock at both stalls may rotate, soit’s not a guarantee that these will be available.

Cost Of Ingredients For Vanilla Ice Cream

If you choose to purchase as many ingredients as possible,here are the total costs per Vanilla Ice Cream.

230

Disney Dreamlight Valley avatar cooking Vanilla Ice Cream with a slightly modified recipe.

150

29

5

Total

414

Vanilla can only be foraged. If you want to make large quantities of Vanilla Ice Cream, make sure toforage in the Sunlit Plateau frequentlyand save as much vanilla as possible.

If you’d rather grow and forage ingredients,sugar seeds cost five coins. If you alsomine for coalyou’ll save yourself awhopping 29 coins. Then you just have to figure out if you’d ratherwait for a chilly treat or just spend the extra few coinsto have it right away.

Modifying The Vanilla Ice Cream Recipe

Disney Dreamlight Valley cookingallows a total of five ingredients to be usedduring the cooking process. Many times,adding extra ingredients can alter the final result.

Vanilla Ice Cream only takes four ingredients, which leaves an additional space. Including extra ingredients that don’t change resultscan improve the amount of energy you receive or the amount of coinsyou’ll get from selling the product.

1,475

673

259

443

1,521

692

249

1,610

723

309

644

1,820

903

564

1,700

823

Using double vanilla as a modified Vanilla Ice Cream recipegives you a decent profit of 309 coins.Pumpkins still give moreat 389, but ittakes a lot longer for pumpkins to growunless you’reusing some Growth Elixirswhich requires quite a bit of mining for materials.

Whether you’re looking for aneasier way to earn some fast coins, or you just feel the urge tofill your inventory with Vanilla Ice Cream, you’ve got multiple recipe variations to achieve your desired result. It could just be the perfecttreat for a beach party with friends.